Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

"Man shapes the world through his imagination."

"The greatest wealth is health."

"Society requires methods as rigid as those of science."

"To know is to understand; to understand is to create."

"Order is the foundation of beauty."

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not the absence of fear."

"A moment of patience may ward off great disaster."

"The universe is a secret which one gradually discovers."

"In order to think, we must lose ourselves."

"The number of laws is a sign of corruption."

"Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized."

"The laws of nature are written by God in the language of mathematics."

"Everything in nature is worth the attention and study of a great mind."

"To live without feeling is to exist without living."

"The foundation of virtue is to hold oneself in true judgment."

"Method is not less important than knowledge."

"A man without passion is like a body without a soul."

"Truth is often stranger than invention."

"The greatest discoveries are often the simplest."

"Nature never surprises us; we surprise ourselves."

"To understand the history of man, we must study the history of nature."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"The purpose of life is living, not merely existing."

"Freedom lies in being bold."

"The mark of a great man is the ability to anticipate the needs of others."

"All that we possess is time; yet we waste it as if we had an eternity."

"A man can be as wicked as he pleases if he only has resolution."

"The smallest of all things is often the greatest."

"Justice is the foundation of peace."

"One must learn to love before one can truly live."